Pleasant Living Magazine

Our congratulations to the following winners of our Third Annual Most Pleasant Life Photo Contest! One hundred and ninety photographs crossed our desks, ten made the finals, and 470 PL readers selected the three winners below. No doubt, it was a difficult decision for our readers! The photo quality was exceptional!

Our 2010 Photo Contest officially kicks off in this issue, so if you are an avid or an occasional photographer, send us those photos that capture the wonder and joy of the pleasant life. See below for submission information.

We’re excited to congratulate the following winners of the 2009 Best Secrets of the River Country!  For the 2009 contest, we received over 6,000 responses from our readers who voted for their favorites in the following 26 categories—from Best Antique Shop and Best Bank, to Best Coffee and Ice Cream. Every year, PL readers continue to reveal the many wonderful secrets along the main streets and back roads in the River Country. Here are our 2009 winners!

Crab Cakes and Seafood / J & W Seafood, Deltaville

Ice Cream and Desserts / BethPage Ice Creamery, Urbanna

Jeweler / Ross’s Rings and Things, Kilmarnock

Barbeque / Something Different Country Store & Deli, Pinetree

Gift Shop / Coffman’s

B & B or Hotel / The Inn at Urbanna Creek, Urbanna

Marina / Urbanna Marina, Urbanna

Coffee / Cross St. Coffee, Urbanna

Wine Selection / White Stone Wine & Cheese, White Stone

Gallery / Rappahannock Hang-ups, Kilmarnock

Non-Chain Clothing / Cyndy's Bynn, Urbanna

Hair Salon / Hair by Sarah, Hartfield

Local Musician / Jumbo Lump Daddy and the Backfin Boys

Most Romantic Place / Waterman’s Park

Bank / EVB

Pet Service / Pet Castle, Urbanna

Pizza / Colonial Pizza, Urbanna

Book Store / Twice Told Tales, Gloucester

Antique Shop / Kilmarnock Antique Gallery

Realtor / Mason Realty, Urbanna

Vet / Hartfield Animal Hospital

Golf Course / Piankatank River Golf Club, Hartfield

Furniture Selection / W. F. Booth and Son, Kilmarnock

Home Builder / Allen Group

Retirement Home / Rappahannock Westminister-Canterbury

Keep watch for the Pleasant Living banners and framed certificates around the River Country identifying our Best Secrets winners, and be sure to stop in to wish them your personal congratulations!

Click "read more" to learn how to cast your vote in our 2010 contest!

Welcome to PL’s Where Is It? Contest, a simple, fun challenge to find a hidden drawing, certain to keep you poring carefully over our pages! The drawing is hidden in every copy of every issue and looks like the crab image shown below.

We’ve concealed this image in three (3) different places in the magazine. It may be hidden in a photo, illustration, in an article or an ad—and it could be a different size, maybe smaller than you think! Find all three drawings and enter our Where Is It? Contest for exciting prizes! It costs nothing to enter.